Truth 1:
All people have knowledge of God. Romans 1: 18

Truth 2:
All people reject God. Romans 1: 21

Truth 3:
All people all guilty before God. Romans 1: 24

Truth 4:
All people are condemned for rejecting God. Romans 3: 20

Truth 5:
God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Romans 3: 21-22

Truth 6:
People cannot come to God apart from faith in Christ. Romans 3: 21-26

Truth 7:
Christ commands the Church to make the Gospel known to all peoples. Romans 10

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Matthew 24: 14 tells us that the end will come when the Kingdom’s gospel is preached in all nations. Our goal, mission, purpose as a church is to make God’s name great among all the peoples of the world. While we are here on this Earth, in Babylon, our time has purpose and has been under God’s sovereign rule. While we pursue our mission as a church, through God’s grace and power, we are to look forward to our coming King and our future return to Jerusalem. His promise will stand.

“…I will gather you from all the nations and places I have banished you…and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.” -Jeremiah 29:14 b

The air clears and the humidity fades… it’s refreshing.

Out in the back, they’re completely out of sight.

Here I am, caught inside – missing the blessing.

I’m glad I know now, my rain boots are out back.

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I pray His desires and His heart become my heart and my desires. Only then can I proclaim that I live saturated in truth.

I’m ok with obeying the Lord, haha, I am. My heart yearns to see the river and some of my closest friends though, and in that, my heart is broken. I miss waking up early, eating a bowl of cereal, letting daniel walsh borrow milk for his, then grabbing my drybag and driving to work with 4+ ppl in my car. I miss the early morning devotion, the trip roll call, the walk to the boat shed, and even the rigging. I can feel the cold water around my ankles as I hold the boat in the eddy, attempting to explain the precautions to my customers…then jumping in and beginning a series of moments that will never be forgotten.

I thank the Lord for the blessings of memories and the grace of experience. I pray my heart stays open to His glory this summer and my mind stays on course for His abundance. 

-brew
surfs up

Let truth govern influence.

brew

Time to man up, Brandon.

As I read the stories of these young movements in missions history, there’s a tremendous pressure on my shoulders to do something great for the Lord. I know the Lord isn’t glorified necessarily by our terms of  ’greatness’, but I have to remember that God is great, therefore I am a prime instrument of greatness for His Kingdom and Glory. I am willing.

“We keep talking about the second coming…half the world hasn’t heard of the first.” 
                                                         -Oswald J. Smith

Bored? Google these people’s stories:
            William Carey
            Samuel Mills
            Hudson Taylor
            C.T. Studd
            Cameron Townsend
            Lottie Moon
            John Wesley
            Count Zinzendorf
            Jim Elliot
            William Borden

still brew.

I’ve seen them in pictures and heard about them.

I’m not sure if I’d ever want to see them, but I’ve

always enjoyed thinking about them.

A wiser man once told me they don’t exist,

that it’s pointless to dream of them.

I guess that’s what I catch myself doing…just dreaming.

Looking at it now, I wasn’t made to stand on a field and look at grass.

That sounds ridiculous, tormenting, not dreamy…

                                                                                   …more of a nightmare.